Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

“What more easily explained and natural? With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.

Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any

porches because they didn’t look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People

and the ‘family.’ That’s awful! Think of our investment. Why